December 1, 1941 to December 31, 1990

By 1966, interest in LSD had proliferated in the public sphere to an enormous extent. The debate over the chemical’s risks and therapeutic possibilities led to Senate subcommittee hearings on its use. Acid, as LSD is commonly called, had been sensationalized by mass media publications and, although in its early years it had been extensively and responsibly studied by medical professionals, the...

On a warm June day in the year 1966, 28 frustrated women went to Washington D.C. to attend the third National Conference of Commissions.[1] The topic for this conference was the status of women in the United States. While some believed that women became equal in America the moment that they gained the vote, others, these 28 women specifically, believed that the U.S. still had a long way to go...

In 1923 Memorial Gym was constructed on the northwest end of campus. The gymnasium was named in honor of all of the local veterans who served in World War I. It was converted to the Clack Art Center after the college built a new gymnasium.

In 1969, Alma College built a new Physical Education Center, which included four racquet ball courts, a weight room, a 20ft deep, six-lane swimming pool,...

Lieutenant Colonel Harold G. Moore, Jr., took command of one of the battalions of the 11th Air Assault Division in June, 1964. He trained and tested the officers and soldiers of his battalion for over a year. Upon completion of testing, the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) was redesignated the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), and Lieutenant Colonel Moore's battalion was given the 1st Battalion,...

Brother Dave Moore was a leader in one of the many Unemployed Councils that were littered across Detroit. He gives a first-hand account of the Ford Hunger March of March 7th, 1932, a protest of unemployed workers in which four protestors were shot p¡by police, but also the frustration and injustice that led up to the march. Brother Moore lived in Leland Street off of Hastings Street...

In the first half of the twentieth century, with an influx in population and with large numbers of African Americans and other minorities making their way to the city, affordable housing became a salient issue in many American metropolises. The Brewster Housing Group was a housing project on the east side of Detroit. The Brewster Housing projects (constructed between 1935-1955), which would eventually...

The downfall of eugenics began around the 1920’s. In the 1930’s there were questionnaires sent out to people in the United States, specifically in Ohio, that contained questions that twins would fill out regarding themselves in many subjects. It questioned the twin’s physical features such as their health and if it differentiated between each twin or how much they differed in height. It also...

The article “Doctors Told No Drug Wholly Safe,” written by David Spurgeon and published on June 21st, 1957, still reads as a stark warning all these decades later[1]. It appeared on the front page of the Globe and Mail, directly below a headline on ‘atom jets’ being sent to a post-war Korea. The article describes a talk given at the annual convention of the Canadian Medical Association...

On March 27, 1966, the New York Times reported on ongoing anti-government protests led by young, angry Buddhists, mainly teenage boys and girls, in Saigon, South Vietnam (United Press International, 1966). With a crowd of over 3,000 demonstrators led by the Buddhist youth headquarters, they demanded that the military government of Premier Nguyen Cao Ky be replaced...

During the late night hours of July 18, 1966, 26-year-old Joyce Arnett walked through Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood with two friends. As they approached E. 83rd Street, police officers ushered them into the second floor of a nearby building. The police presence had recently arrived to disperse a large crowd that had gathered on the street. Mrs. Arnett, a mother of three who lived nearby,...